In this episode, we will talk about how long COVID-19 patients will be immune from the second infection and why some of them still feel unwell months after their treatment. We then talk about cancer cells and bacteria hibernation when are under harsh environment and the circadian rhythm in bacteria. Finally, we talk about the new information about Megalodon reproduction and the relationship between the size of crocodiles and global warming.
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The papers reviewed in this podcast:
1-Raul Sanchez-Vazquez, Ana Guío-Carrión, Antonio Zapatero-Gaviria, Paula Martínez, Maria A. Blasco. Shorter telomere lengths in patients with severe COVID-19 disease. Aging, 2021; DOI: 10.18632/aging.202463
2-Jennifer M. Dan, Jose Mateus, Yu Kato, Kathryn M. Hastie, Esther Dawen Yu, Caterina E. Faliti, Alba Grifoni, Sydney I. Ramirez, Sonya Haupt, April Frazier, Catherine Nakao, Vamseedhar Rayaprolu, Stephen A. Rawlings, Bjoern Peters, Florian Krammer, Viviana Simon, Erica Ollmann Saphire, Davey M. Smith, Daniela Weiskopf, Alessandro Sette, Shane Crotty. Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection. Science, 2021; eabf4063 DOI: 10.1126/science.abf4063
3-Sumaiyah K. Rehman et al. Colorectal Cancer Cells Enter a Diapause-like DTP State to Survive Chemotherapy. Cell, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.018
4-Pauline Bleichert, Lucy Bütof, Christian Rückert, Martin Herzberg, Romeu Francisco, Paula V. Morais, Gregor Grass, Jörn Kalinowski, Dietrich H. Nies. Mutant Strains of Escherichia coli and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Obtained by Laboratory Selection To Survive on Metallic Copper Surfaces. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2020; 87 (1) DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01788-20
5-Zheng Eelderink-Chen, Jasper Bosman, Francesca Sartor, Antony N. Dodd, Ákos T. Kovács, Martha Merrow. A circadian clock in a nonphotosynthetic prokaryote. Science Advances, 2021; 7 (2): eabe2086 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe2086
6-Kenshu Shimada , Matthew F. Bonnan , Martin A. Becker & Michael L. Griffiths. Ontogenetic growth pattern of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon—implications for its reproductive biology, development, and life expectancy. Historical Biology, 2021 DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1861608
7-Maximilian T. Stockdale, Michael J. Benton. Environmental drivers of body size evolution in crocodile-line archosaurs. Communications Biology, 2021; 4 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01561-5
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